11 things about The Commitments that you might not have known RTE's documentary about the world's hardest working band airs this Sunday Sign up! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice God might have sent Joey 'The Lips' Fagan on a f***ing Suzuki, but it was Roddy Doyle and Alan Parker that brought magic to The Commitments. 30 years ago, a small Irish movie about a group of young Dubliners who form a band to play American soul music opened with little fanfare.